Helping Older Kids Prepare to be Adopted

Adoption is a huge transition in a child’s life. What can parents, social workers, and orphanage workers do to help the child prepare? Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews 2 adoption social workers on helping to prepare older kids for what it means to be adopted.

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My husband & I have been approved to adopt an older child (5 to 11) through foster care in Colorado. I have loved the wealth of information I’ve learned through this podcast, blog posts & the facebook group! But I was a little disappointed to find that this podcast episode was almost exclusively about domestic infant adoption and international adoption (maybe the title could have included “international”? There were some passing statements about working with a foster child’s case worker, that really didn’t get in-depth into how to transition a foster kid into a pre-adoptive placement. Many kids in foster care have had failed pre-adoptive placements before, which creates a lot of natural resistance on the part of a foster kid. And many case workers are swamped. I’d love to know what kinds of questions to ask the child’s current foster placement AND what to do/ask with the case workers as well. I was wondering if you already have another episode specifically about how to transition a foster child into their pre-adoptive home? Or maybe it’s an idea for a future episode? Thanks in advance!

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